When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it blocks the part of our brain that distinguishes right from wrong. To deal with our problems, we need to be practical and realistic. If we are to be realistic, we need to use our human intelligence properly, which means we need a calm mind.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Go back a little to leap further.

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.

The trouble is, you think you have time.

It's choice, not chance, that determines your destiny.

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. Choose now. Choose well.

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.